DAC pre-event: Tcube, designing AI chips on cloud hot at 60th Design Automation Conference
Developing AI chips on AI enabled cloud environment is now called as "Transformative Technologies Theater" or "Tcube". This is the hot topic at 60th DAC. Let's get more into it.
Like how semiconductor is becoming critical element in modern systems, electronic design automation tools are even more critical in semiconductor chip design. However talented electronics and semiconductor chip design engineer you are, your knowledge and effective use of various software elements in designing chip defines your capability. To say in short "new semiconductor chips are designed using already matured well-established semiconductor chips". So in this world of "chips by chips", human role is finding new innovative applications and markets, designing conceptual abstract level system using high-level languages, and more importantly monitoring processes, flows, and clearing bugs which software failed to identify. While digital circuits are extraordinarily faster than human being in processing giga chunks of binary data. In the past, chips were lacking in identifying a picture, a shape, an analog signal as fast and reliable as human eye and brain can read. But now chips are evolved to recognise patterns, to read shapes and to read the full picture by using vector processing, MAC, in memory computing, neural proce...
Like how semiconductor is becoming critical element in modern systems, electronic design automation tools are even more critical in semiconductor chip design. However talented electronics and semiconductor chip design engineer you are, your knowledge and effective use of various software elements in designing chip defines your capability. To say in short "new semiconductor chips are designed using already matured well-established semiconductor chips". So in this world of "chips by chips", human role is finding new innovative applications and markets, designing conceptual abstract level system using high-level languages, and more importantly monitoring processes, flows, and clearing bugs which software failed to identify. While digital circuits are extraordinarily faster than human being in processing giga chunks of binary data. In the past, chips were lacking in identifying a picture, a shape, an analog signal as fast and reliable as human eye and brain can read. But now chips are evolved to recognise patterns, to read shapes and to read the full picture by using vector processing, MAC, in memory computing, neural proce...
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